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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should improve its process for physician quality reporting in order to make the reports more reliable, says Government Accountability Office.
Aetna and post-acute care provider Genesis HealthCare announced last week an incentive-based contract aimed at rewarding Genesis for creating a coordinated care approach that reduces hospital readmissions for Aetna members.
Even as Oklahoma and Kansas recently said 'no thanks' to federal money aimed at helping them with the health information technology platform needed to create health insurance exchanges, the Departments of Health and Human Services and Treasury last week awarded $185M more to drive the creation of the exchanges across the country.
GAO is urging the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid beef up its approach to physician quality reporting, recommending CMS be more methodical in order to make the reports more reliable.
To help U.S. hospitals manage risk and take full advantage of the new healthcare payment models, Thomson Reuters has introduced a suite of payment reform tools.
A federal appeals court in Atlanta concluded Friday that the individual mandate in the health reform law is unconstitutional and that it can be severed from the rest of the law. A lower court ruling held that the mandate was unconstitutional and could not be removed from the whole.
Two "Blue" health insurers announced earlier this week a partnership intended to expand Medicaid insurance and services nationally through a combined acquisition of AmeriHealth Mercy, which serves nearly 800,000 Medicaid members in three states.
With the Congressional Super Committee charged with finding $1.5 trillion in budget cuts now named, healthcare organizations representing community care givers and nursing homes and long-term care insurance providers are stepping up to urge lawmakers to preserve funding for these vital health services.
Thomson Reuters has launched a suite of new payment reform tools designed to help U.S. hospitals manage risk and seize opportunities as new healthcare payment models go into effect.